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Talked to husband last night. Ideas? Thoughts? Am I expecting too much?
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<blockquote data-quote="Shari" data-source="post: 418391" data-attributes="member: 1848"><p>I just noticed this line....hahahaha. Good luck with that one. Pretty much if it doesn't involve sitting on a tractor, its offensive. He'll straight up tell ya he doesn't like to do "those" kind of things. He will cook. However, in order for that to be remotely helpful, I have to mandate he clean up, as well, cause, well, you saw how the cooking goes... Him cooking is not really a workload reduction for me...unless he cleans it up also.</p><p> </p><p>But ya know what...he did load the dishwasher a lot while I was down. That was the one thing he would do semi-regularly. Maybe supper should be more "his" job now and wouldn't be something he'd object to. Its going into summer, he likes to grill. And if he takes on the chore of feeding the fam at night (and cleanup after), maybe that will give him the opportunity to learn why doing dishes does matter in the scheme of things...if you don't clean up, you have no room to work, and no tools to work with, ya know? I don't think he's ever had the opportunity to learn a lot of those "natural consequence" lessons. And with meals is going to come groceries, and with that comes a budget. Maybe that's one area that would be a less-offensive place to start, but with really a lot of things to learn in that area.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shari, post: 418391, member: 1848"] I just noticed this line....hahahaha. Good luck with that one. Pretty much if it doesn't involve sitting on a tractor, its offensive. He'll straight up tell ya he doesn't like to do "those" kind of things. He will cook. However, in order for that to be remotely helpful, I have to mandate he clean up, as well, cause, well, you saw how the cooking goes... Him cooking is not really a workload reduction for me...unless he cleans it up also. But ya know what...he did load the dishwasher a lot while I was down. That was the one thing he would do semi-regularly. Maybe supper should be more "his" job now and wouldn't be something he'd object to. Its going into summer, he likes to grill. And if he takes on the chore of feeding the fam at night (and cleanup after), maybe that will give him the opportunity to learn why doing dishes does matter in the scheme of things...if you don't clean up, you have no room to work, and no tools to work with, ya know? I don't think he's ever had the opportunity to learn a lot of those "natural consequence" lessons. And with meals is going to come groceries, and with that comes a budget. Maybe that's one area that would be a less-offensive place to start, but with really a lot of things to learn in that area. [/QUOTE]
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